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Footprints Left In Hong Kong
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Download or read book My Hong Kong written by Malcolm Jack and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2022-07-29 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How was Hong Kong perceived and described by writers from the 1950s during the last colonial period? Was it a British city or was it Chinese? The writers show how different life was for ex-pats ensconced on the Peak and leading a glitzy lifestyle compared to refugees who came pouring into the colony from mainland China and lived in dire poverty in squatter camps. Find out if that East and West ever mingled in My Hong Kong.
Book Synopsis Explaining the Genetic Footprints of Catholic and Protestant Colonizers by : S. Barter
Download or read book Explaining the Genetic Footprints of Catholic and Protestant Colonizers written by S. Barter and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book points out a novel pattern in colonial intimacy - that Catholic colonizers tended to leave behind significant mixed communities while Protestant colonizers were more likely to police relations with local women. The varied genetic footprints of Catholic and Protestant colonizers, while subject to some exceptions, holds across world regions and over time. Having demonstrated that this pattern exists, this book then seeks to explain it, looking to religious institutions, political capacity, and ideas of nation and race.
Book Synopsis Footprints Left in Hong Kong by : Iain Leighton
Download or read book Footprints Left in Hong Kong written by Iain Leighton and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-08 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iain Leighton's first book describes British expatriate life in Hong Kong in the 1950s and 1960s, based on his memories. There are over 30 chapters, covering subjects like the British military presence; the riots of 1966 and 1967; recreational clubs; British schools; typhoons; weekends in the New Territories; Chinese customs and superstitions and visits to beaches for picnics. Iain Leighton describes his memories from this time: "Dire poverty for the refugees affected me as a child, I was aware of acute poverty for the Chinese refugees when I was a boy. Despite the relatively small number of expats (circa 60,000), the atmosphere remained very British and colonial. Colonial expat families were well dressed and attending church and Sunday school was normal. People in their thousands took jobs as civil servants with the Hong Kong Government to get away from the U.K. The U.K. still had food rationing for about seven years post-1945. Hong Kong, on the other hand, never had food rationing. Salaries were higher than in the U.K.; living in Hong Kong was cheap compared to dismal, tired U.K. Hong Kong was a wonderful place to live and bring up your children."
Book Synopsis In the Footprints of the Padres by : Charles Warren Stoddard
Download or read book In the Footprints of the Padres written by Charles Warren Stoddard and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Warren Stoddard (1843-1909) and his family left Rochester, New York, for California in 1855. In the 1870s and 1880s, he became a well known writer of travel books, most notably his South-Sea Idylls. He taught at Notre Dame and the Catholic University of America before retiring to California at the end of his life. In the footprints of the padres (1902) recalls Stoddard's boyhood and family life in San Francisco: schools, Chinatown, social life, Happy Valley, and the Vigilance Committee. He also describes a voyage to New York in 1857 with his ailing older brother and offers miscellaneous anecdotes of California missions, Monterey, and Theresa Yelverton.
Book Synopsis The Hong Kong Gambit by : Phillip Church
Download or read book The Hong Kong Gambit written by Phillip Church and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-06-10 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps like this author you have a retirement account with savings invested in a diversified portfolio of stocks and bonds across industry sectors and financial markets. At the encouragement of your financial advisor, you may hold some international securities, including assets in emerging market economies like Hong Kong, which has long been one of the investment darlings of U.S. mutual fund managers. You would not be happy to learn, I suspect, that some of your foreign investment savings might be commingled with overseas money generated from illicit commerce, in particular Asian sex trafficking. That's the discovery of three Americans on vacation in Asia who get caught up in, and find themselves forced to thwart, a Hong Kong-based Chinese crime syndicate scheme to take control of Thailand's economy. The Hong Kong Gambit tells a fictional story based on the very real world of international illicit human trafficking that destroys lives of young girls and threatens the economic stability and progress of countries like Thailand.
Book Synopsis It Seems to Me by : Hunter MacCulloch
Download or read book It Seems to Me written by Hunter MacCulloch and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Collapsing Gracefully: Making a Built Environment that is Fit for the Future by : Emilio Garcia
Download or read book Collapsing Gracefully: Making a Built Environment that is Fit for the Future written by Emilio Garcia and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-07-24 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative book investigates the concept of collapse in terms of our built environment, exploring the future transition of modern cities towards scenarios very different from the current promises of progress and development. This is not a book about the end of the world and hopeless apocalyptic scenarios. It is about understanding change in how and where we live. Collapse is inevitable, but in the built environment collapse could imply a manageable situation, an opportunity for change or a devastating reality. Collapsing gracefully means that there might be better ways to coexist with collapse if we learn more about it and commit to rebuild our civilisations in ways that avoid its worst effects. This book uses a wide range of practical examples to study critical changes in the built environment, to contextualise and visualise what collapse looks like, to see if it is possible to buffer its effects in places already collapsing and to propose ways to develop greater resilience. The book challenges all agents and institutions in modern cities, their designers and planners as well as their residents and users to think differently about built environment so as to ease our coexistence with collapse and not contribute to its causes. .
Book Synopsis Food Plants of China by : Shiu-ying Hu
Download or read book Food Plants of China written by Shiu-ying Hu and published by Chinese University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 940 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The food plants of an area provide the material basis for the survival of its population, and furnish inspiring stimuli for cultural development. There are two parts in this book. Part 1 introduces the cultural aspects of Chinese food plants and the spread of Chinese culinary culture to the world. It also describes how the botanical and cultural information was acquired; what plants have been selected by the Chinese people for food; how these foodstuffs are produced, preserved, and prepared; and what the western societies can learn from Chinese practices. Part 2 provides the botanical identification of the plant kingdom for the esculents used in China as food and/or as beverage. The plants are illustrated with line drawings or composite photographic plates. This book is useful not only as a text for general reading, but also as a work reference. Naturally, it would be a useful addition to the general collection of any library.
Book Synopsis Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems by : Farid Karimipour
Download or read book Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems written by Farid Karimipour and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-05-18 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Symposium on Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems, W2GIS 2022, held in Konstanz, Germany, in April 2022. The 7 full papers presented together with 6 short papers in the volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 16 submissions. The papers cover topics that range from mobile GIS and Location-Based Services to Spatial Information Retrieval and Wireless Sensor Networks.
Book Synopsis Network and System Security by : Man Ho Au
Download or read book Network and System Security written by Man Ho Au and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-12-18 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Network and System Security, NSS 2018, held in Hong Kong, China, in August 2018. The 26 revised full papers and 9 short papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 88 initial submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics in the field, including blockchain, mobile security, applied cryptography, authentication, biometrics, IoT, privacy, and education.
Download or read book Summary of World Broadcasts written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Out Came the Sun by : Eunice W. Remington
Download or read book Out Came the Sun written by Eunice W. Remington and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eunice Remington lives in Virginia Beach, VA This is her first novel. Spiritual This is the life journey of six sisters raised in the South. It mostly revolves around Ellen, the fifth sister. The sun would come out and the rain would fall. There would be laughter and there would be tears. The six lives are intertwined for eighty years. Cover design by: Elsie W. DeLane W. Barnstable, MA
Book Synopsis Handbook of Footwear Design and Manufacture by : A. Luximon
Download or read book Handbook of Footwear Design and Manufacture written by A. Luximon and published by Woodhead Publishing. This book was released on 2021-02-11 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Handbook of Footwear Design and Manufacture, Second Edition, is a fully updated, expanded guide on the theories, processes, methodologies and technologies surrounding the footwear supply chain. Topics discussed include engineering design methodology, reducing manufacturing waste, footwear advertisement, emerging imaging technology, advice on the optimization of manufacturing processes for productivity, and summaries of the latest advances from researchers around the globe. This updated edition also includes coverage of sizing and grading based on different footwear styles and methods, AI based personalization and customization, emerging models for online footwear shopping (involving data mining), and new methods for foot data analysis and representation. - Covers many exciting new developments, such as AR/VR, additive manufacturing, customization of footwear, new last design methods, and green footwear - Addresses the entire footwear design and manufacture supply chain - Explains new methods for foot data analysis and representation
Book Synopsis A Hong Kong Time Capsule by : Iain Leighton
Download or read book A Hong Kong Time Capsule written by Iain Leighton and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-23 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iain Leighton's recollections of his wonderful childhood growing up in Hong Kong in the 1950s. "Reading Iain's book has been a delight, bringing back a wealth of memories of my own childhood. Iain's description of his childhood years in the 1950s mirrors my own memories of the 1930s. My father Richard Keown, was an engineer with Taikoo Dockyard. I arrived in Hong Kong aged only three months with my family in 1930. This book by Iain Leighton will I'm sure bring endless pleasure and fond memories to so many people who spent their lives in that very special place." (Rena Jaques, Hampshire UK)
Download or read book Chinese in Dubai written by Yuting Wang and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-09-07 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chinese in Dubai tells the fascinating story of the Chinese in the most prominent global city of the Arabian Gulf—their history, struggles and contributions—against the backdrop of a shifting global political economic order with the rise of China.
Download or read book Chinese Footprints written by Susanna Hoe and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The writing of history used to concentrate on narrative, analysis or theory. The historian stayed out of sight. This book is part of a more recent trend. Here, the author discusses her relationship to her material, the processes of research and writing, and her characters. She does so by exploring and sometimes comparing, the lives of Chinese and western women who have lived in China, Hong Kong and Macau, and links them not only to herself but also to contemporary women's issues, human rights and colonialism. This book is about the practice of history. The characters include 1930's civil and women rights campaigners Shi Liang, China's Minister of Justice 1949 to 1959, Agnes Smedley and Stella Benson, autobiographical writer Xiao Hong, revolutionary Soong Ching Ling, traveller Ella Maillart, philanthropist Clara Ho Tung, and Clara Elliot, who was part of the story of Hong Kong's cession to Britain in 1841. --Publisher's description.
Download or read book Lui Che-woo written by Lui Che-woo and published by Editions Didier Millet. This book was released on 2016-08-12 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hong Kong multi-billionaire Lui Che-woo started his first enterprise in difficult circumstances at the age of 13. Now, after more than 70 years in business, he has achieved great success in numerous industries. He is founder and chairman of multinational conglomerate K. Wah Group, with operations in Hong Kong, Mainland China, the United States and elsewhere. In recent times he has become well-known for leading Galaxy Entertainment Group to become one of the three large gaming operators in Macau. In tandem with his success in business, Lui is a distinguished philanthropist. Notably, in 2015 he established the LUI Che Woo Prize – Prize for World Civilisation to honour and recognize individuals or organizations who have unconditionally promoted world civilization. In the course of his life and career, Lui has faced many challenges and experienced numerous ups and downs. What makes drives Lui? Why do his businesses continue to take off and flourish? What makes his era-spanning, diverse and multinational business empire successful and outstanding? In this book he shares his wisdom, unveils the secrets of his triumphs and pathways to happiness, and inspires readers to change their thinking and improve their lives.
